Do you eat all yout calories

PurelyZee

Just wandering if people eat all the suggested calories. I am doing 2 workouts a day 4 days a week and 1 workout 6 days a week thats a lot of cals to eat. I appreciate any suggestions:)
Warmly, Zee

Kell_Smurthwaite

I have real trouble filing my pre-exercise calories, never mind the ones I earn from exercising! I'm slowly learning to arrange my meals and add more calories to them, but I refuse to fill them just for the sake of it if I'm not hungry - that's what got me in this mess in the first place - LOL! I also refuse to eat something unhealthy just to fill a calorie void. Mot of my problem lies in that I eat a lot of fresh fruit and vegetables - they're not high in calories, yet they're filling. I'm also avoiding bread and potatoes as they tend to make me bloat, and I've switched to wholemeal pasta and cut my portion size in half to a proper portion size, instead of my old giant-sized portion I used to have, patly for the bloating reason and partly because I'm trying ot re-educate myself to what proper portion sizes actually are.

So no, at present I do not eat all of my calorie allowance, BUT I most certainly am not going hungry and I am eating very healthily.


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twilks11

I can't seem to eat my calories either. I have stomach problems and can't digest certain foods and the foods I do eat don't move. So no I don't eat them either just for the sake of eating. I also work our almost everyday and don't eat most of the calories either. As long as your feeling full and eating a little healthier the calories shouldn't matter..

gaia3rd

I would say that yes, most people are eating at least some (1/2-3/4) of their exercise calories back. I eat all mine back and have been steadily losing a pound a week since I began.

CyberEd312

BMR is 2160 with a 500 calorie deficit built in and with my exercise calories figured back in I am eating at 3000 calories a day and losing weight so yep I enjoy every last one of those calories..... :-)

Meaganandcheese

You should be at least netting your BMR. You don't have to eat all of the calories you burn, but all that activity needs fuel!

sarahgilmore

Yup I eat most of mine. Sometimes I'm a couple of hundred under BUT my goal is close to 2300 so this isn't such a big deal. (My BMR is around 1550) I don't eat my exercise calories, the little exercise I do creates my deficit for the most part (i.e my 'goal' is maintenance).

magerum

I do try to eat my calories, but not what MFP reports as exercise cals. See the post I JUST made regarding this:
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/532016-general-observation-on-calorie-burns-hrm-vs-mfp

Summary: I eat 2/3 of what MFP reports as burnt.

-M

kbmnurse

Usually I eat all my calories. Some days a little less. I find that I am hungry and have to eat about 5-6 meals daily. 3 meals with 2-3 snacks.

ironanimal

Your calorie deficit is accounted for in your target. So, you should. A lot of people mistakenly strive to make the deficit ever larger and end up wasting muscle just as effectively as their fat.

Scorpioangel

Sometimes I eat them sometimes I don't. If I am not hungry I won't.

Captain_Tightpants

I try to eat to about 100-200 below goal, just to account for the inevitable measurement errors. Other than that, yep I eat em all.

wahmx3

I try to eat all my calories as I have MFP set to my BMR, so I don't pay total attention to my exercise calories. On the days I am under, it just means I didn't really exercise, like today!